World Current Affairs

Option: B
Explanation :The Prime Minister met with the visiting President of the World Economic Forum, Borge Brende, at the Prime Minister’s office. At the meeting, the Prime Minister announced the establishment of the National Accelerator on Closing the Skills Gap in Pakistan, in partnership with the World Economic Forum, with Punjab Skills Development Fund (PSDF) serving as its national secretariat.

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Option: D
Explanation :To cater to the basic health needs of a large number of tourists, a basic health unit is being installed at Babusar top in Naran valley following orders from the KPK Provincial Minister for Health, Hisham Inamullah Khan.

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Option: D
Explanation :Celebrating World Ocean Day, Nestlé Pakistan launched its global employee volunteer program ‘Nestlé Cares’ with a beach cleaning drive at Sea View Beach, Karachi.
Employees of Nestlé Pakistan have taken upon themselves to do their bit for a waste-free future. Over 100 volunteers, including employees of Nestlé Pakistan, representatives from National Forum for Environment & Health (NFEH) and Consumer Association of Pakistan (CAP) and participants from the Civil society joined hands as responsible citizens of the world to clear the bay and beyond.

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Option: C
Explanation :The US government will now issue licenses to companies that want to do business with Huawei, as long as there is no threat to national security. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced this.
We’re still unsure which American products fall into this category, or whether Huawei can resume working with Google as before. Ross also said that Huawei will remain on the banned Entity List, and the government can still deny a license request if need be. He further added that the new licensees will have to comply with the previously issued component availability requirements. He restated that the department will only issue licenses after evaluating the potential of national security risks involved.

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Option: A
Explanation :To protect vegetation and forests in Pakistan, the government has announced that July 20 will be celebrated as the national “Plant for Pakistan” day. Adviser to Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam made this announcement on Wednesday-10-July-2019 while chairing the 4th meeting of the Federal Forestry Board.He said that Prime Minister Imran Khan will inaugurate the initiative by planting a sapling.
The advisor to PM said that the ’10 Billion Tree Tsunami’ is a national project, and all the provinces equally are involved. Malik Amin Aslam advised that the provinces should revise their targets and devise new plans to achieve them before 14th August. The provinces have been advised to submit their PC-1’s and progress on the ground by next week.

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Option: C
Explanation :Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Sania Nishtar on Saturday-06-July-2019 said 80,000 interest-free loans would be given countrywide to the needy every month under National Poverty Graduation Strategy programme to enable them to start their own businesses.
Dr.Sania said Rs 42.65 billion has been allocated for the National Poverty Graduation Strategy program however, 16.2 million people would get benefit from it and 80,000 people would be provided interest-free loans every month, she added. She said the programme would consist of three components, including interest-free loans, skill training and transfer of small assets such as sewing machines, livestock and agricultural equipment to bring the marginalised sector into the mainstream.

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Option: B
Explanation : The federal government on Saturday-06-July-2019 handed three public sector hospitals back to the Sindh government months after it was ordered to take control of the hospitals by the Supreme Court in January this year. The Sindh government had approached the Supreme Court with a claim that since the subject of health had been devolved to provinces under the 18th Amendment, the management of the hospitals namely the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical College (JPMC), National Institute of Cardio Vascular Diseases (NICVD) and National Institute of Child Health (NICH) should rest with it.
However, the court had rejected the provincial government’s plea, saying the SC couldn’t leave “poor at the mercy of the provincial governments”. The Centre had taken control of the port city’s three major hospitals in May following the verdict.

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Option: D
Explanation : Pakistan provisionally received over $9.76 billion of foreign assistance in the first eleven months (July-May) of the financial year 2018-19 against $10.448 billion during the same period of 2017-18. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led government borrowed $543.96 million from foreign commercial banks in May, bringing the total to $3.727 billion under this head in July-May 2018-19, compared to $3.494 billion borrowed during the same period of 2017-18.
This does not include the $5 billion in deposits from friendly countries. The PML-N government had budgeted foreign assistance of $9.69 billion for 2018-19 including $394.34 million grants and $9.297 billion loans, as shown in the EAD data. The country received $11.486 billion against the budgeted assistance of $8.094 billion for 2017-18 including $3.716 billion from foreign commercial banks.

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Option: C
Explanation : World-famous stuntman, Sultan Muhammad Khan, aka Sultan Golden, claims to have broken the record of fastest reverse driving, which was previously held by an American driver.
According to Sultan, American driver set a world record by reserve-driving a car at 58.8 kilometers per hour. He claims to have set a new world record at a speed of 112 kilometers per hour. Sultan Golden, who is also a jumping specialist, said he created this record while rehearsing for the upcoming Chitral Shandur Polo Tournament in Saidu Sharif, Swat. Golden was hopeful that during the Shandur Polo festival, he would create three more records. The event is scheduled from 7 to 9 July in Swat.

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Option: A
Explanation : Pakistan batsman Shoaib Malik confirmed his retirement from one-day cricket without making a farewell appearance in his side’s victory over Bangladesh on Friday-05-july-2019.
The 37-year-old will continue to play the Twenty20 format, but he admitted it was an emotional moment to call time on his ODI career.
Malik appeared in 287 one-day internationals and scored 7,534 runs with nine hundreds. His last appearance came in the defeat against arch rivals India in Manchester on June 16. As an off-spinner he finished with 158 wickets, while he also captained Pakistan in 41 ODIs.

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